How Candy Crowley saved Obama in last night's presidential debate

My thoughts on last night's debate:

1) Candy Crowley propped up Obama by injecting herself into the debate regarding the Benghazi terrorist attack on Sept. 11. Then she went on CNN afterwards and said this:            

”I knew the president had said ‘These acts of terror won’t stand,’ or whatever the whole quote was. Right after that, I did turn around and said [to Romney], ‘But you were totally correct that they spent two weeks telling us that this was about a tape, and that there was a riot outside the Benghazi complex, which there wasn’t.’

“So [Romney] was right in the main. I just think he picked the wrong word.”

Whether or not she later set the record straight, as a moderator, Crowley's job is to preside over the debate and this means to ensure the debaters answer the questions in the allotted amount of time. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Another point: Did you hear the crowd clap when she interrupted Romney? Did you know that clapping is against the rules in a debate? The atmosphere is supposed to remain neutral. Obviously, the majority of the crowd were Obama supporters -- not undecideds as we were told.

2) Then Crowley shut down Romney during his response to the lady's AK-47 question when he brought up Fast & Furious, the Obama administration's gun running scandal that has prompted bipartisan investigative hearings on Capitol Hill.

This program provided assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels (without tracking devices), and, in turn, those weapons have killed hundreds of Mexican nationals as well as United States Border Patrol Officer Brian Terri.

According to the hearings, there is reason to believe the Obama administration was planning on using the deaths caused by these weapons to introduce new gun laws.

Problem is, though, Obama exerted executive privilege over the remaining emails relating to Fast and Furious. This stonewalls investigators from obtaining more evidence.

Important note: When a president exerts executive privilege, it means the operation goes all the way to the White House. Therefore, more than likely, Obama knows there is damning evidence in these emails.

The media has not been covering this scandal as they should. Please take it upon yourself to do a little research on Fast & Furious

3) Obama flat out lied about oil drilling in the United States. Drilling is up significantly on private lands, where the federal government has no control, but down nearly 40 percent on federal lands including on and off-shore drilling.

Then what about the Keystone Pipeline. Obama said there's enough pipeline to reach around the globe and back. This line was good for a late night television talk show, but any normal person would have to ask why he didn't approve a project that would've, over night, spawned nearly 2,000 jobs.

4) Coal: According to the July 17 CNN article, "The War Over Coal Is Personal," twenty percent of coal plants have closed in the past four years. By the end of 2012, Credit Suisse, a banking and industry analysis firm, expects 111 more closures due to stringent EPA regulations.

In all: 500 expected coal plant closures -- that's one-fifth of America's coal energy . . . gone during one term of Barack Obama.

5) Best of all: Obama's argument on gas prices. This was truly laughable. He argued that gas prices were low when he took office because we were on the verge of an economic collapse.

With this logic, the economy must be booming since the current average price of gas is $3.80 per gallon.